Unconsciously, sleepiness slowly swept over, and in the second half of the night, I fell asleep directly on it, and it was not until the early morning of the second day that Su Mu's call came into my ears, and I opened my eyes.

"Miss, why did you run to the roof, hurry down, don't fall."

Seeing Su Mu's anxious and worried look, I smiled awkwardly and said, "Hehe, it was too hot last night, I couldn't sleep, so I went up to the top to take a cooler, but I accidentally fell asleep." ”

"Miss, it's autumn now, the weather is starting to get cooler, and the night is even more bitterly cold, you say you can't sleep in the heat, do you think I can believe it?" Obviously, this statement did not convince Su Mu.

But then again, I didn't wear a few thicker clothes last night, and I was able to sleep in such a cold weather. It seems that my body is not so weak. I sighed to myself.

With a pop, a breeze blew the willows, landed smoothly, and after returning to the dormitory to wash and make up, he left the prince's mansion alone and went to the old noodle restaurant yesterday.

"Old man, I'm here for business again." Before the person arrived, the voice had already reached the house, and the old man hurriedly came out to greet him, and the wrinkled smile was as kind as ever, and said, "The girl is here?" We're having breakfast too, so come in. ”

The old man was very welcoming, and on a table in the noodle restaurant, there was a small pot of white rice porridge. A stack of buns and a stack of pickle sticks is very simple, after all, their living conditions are really limited now, and they can't fish and meat like those big families.

The little girl Xia Youming was very sensible, so she had already set up the dishes and chopsticks, served me a bowl of white porridge, and brought a big bowl full of it for the elderly.

When it was his turn, he used a porcelain similar to a cup, which was not as big as a palm, and the small one was pitiful, and the white porridge in it was only a little bite, and he ate it in three or two bites, and only said: "I'm full." Then he set the dishes and chopsticks aside.

That's full? My eyes widened in disbelief, I hadn't even moved my chopsticks, people were already full, did I react too slowly or did she eat too fast?

"Why do you eat so little?" The old man also asked with some surprise.

Although the little girl was dressed plainly, she was still as delicate and beautiful as a porcelain doll, she patted her little belly and said, "Grandpa, Ming'er is full." ”

"Nonsense, I've only eaten a few bites, how can I be full?" The old man looked at her with a serious face.

"I'm really full, I ate a few steamed buns last night, and I'm not very hungry yet, grandpa, you can eat." After the little girl finished speaking, she picked up her dishes and chopsticks and was about to rinse them.

The old man pulled her back, took a big bowl and put a big bowl of white porridge in front of her, and said earnestly: "Silly child, you are still growing your body, how can you eat so little, hurry up and drink the porridge." ”

"I'm really full, grandpa takes care of me every day, and I should eat more." As she spoke, the little girl poured most of the rice porridge from her bowl into the old man's bowl.

The old man couldn't stop it, shook his head and sighed lightly, saying nothing more.

"What a filial and sensible girl." I sighed in my heart, the life of the old man is so embarrassing, and my granddaughter Xia Youming would rather starve herself in order to let the old man eat more, which is really sensible and distressing.

"Grandpa, will those bad guys still come today?" At this moment, the little girl's red and fluttering childish face showed a look of fear, and she puffed out her mouth and muttered weakly: "They robbed our home, drove us here but refused to let us go, came here every day to make trouble, so that we couldn't do business, and now we can't even eat, why should they do this?" ”

"Ming'er, don't worry, they are just inhuman beasts, as long as grandpa still has a breath, they won't let them bully you, and they won't let you starve." The old man touched her head and added some rice porridge to her bowl.

I didn't say a word during the whole process, a mouthful of porridge and a few pickles, and I simply ate this simple breakfast, but a nameless fire had been set off in my heart, and it was difficult to calm down.

The old man's surname is Xia, in my cognition, this is an extremely ancient surname, which can be traced back to the pre-Qin period in their mortal world, and the origin is not small, but the old man is extremely ordinary.

If you compare all living beings to a vast ocean, he is just a drop of water, and now his life has reached the point of poverty, relying on a small noodle restaurant to make a living, but he has to be bullied by the provocateur, which is like making matters worse.

The little girl's name is Xia Youming, five or six years old, sensible, well-behaved and beautiful, her parents died at the same time two years ago, leaving her and the old man to rely on each other.

"Old man, didn't I give you two taels of silver yesterday? How did you? I asked, a little puzzled.

Fifty taels is nothing to Li Hanyan and others, but in the people, it is enough to solve all the daily expenses of an ordinary family for a year and a half, and their lives will be greatly improved.

But now it seems that the old man's condition has not improved much, which makes me puzzled, didn't he use up the ingot?

The old man didn't speak, sighed deeply, his expression was full of helplessness and grief, and finally it was the little girl who spoke, and I knew the truth.

It turned out that not long after Li Hanyan and I left yesterday, the group of gangsters came to the noodle shop to stir up trouble, and after finding the silver in the old man's cuffs, they grabbed it in their hands without saying a word and took it for themselves.

"Grandpa's body can't do it...... They also gave ......" The little girl said this, a pair of big eyes misted again, and bean-sized tears began to condense in her eyes.

"These brutes!" After listening to her, the nameless fire in my heart became stronger, but I still endured it, squatted down, put one hand on the little girl's shoulder, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with the other, and said in a soft tone, "Your name is Xia Youming, right?" Don't cry, sister won't let those bad people bully you. ”

"Big sister...... Xia Youming's eyes turned red again, tears would fall every time her long eyelashes fluttered, she lowered her head, leaned on her shoes that were also patched, and whispered: "Grandpa said that they are heinous bad people, not something we can provoke......"

"Don't be afraid, the wicked have the rule of the wicked, they won't be rampant for long, do you believe in my sister?" I stroked the back of her head, such a sensible and cute little girl, but being bullied like this, it was really difficult to calm down.

"Girl, don't be impulsive." The old man was weathered, and at a glance he sensed the anger I had suppressed in his heart, and was afraid that I would cause some great disaster on impulse, so he only said: "We can't afford to provoke them, there are people in their family in the court, and it is not at all that we, the common people, can contend with." ”

The old man shook his head, sighed, and said, "I'm all this age, to put it mildly, maybe one day I will be taken away by impermanence, and I really don't want to leave my hometown." It is said that the older people get, the more nostalgic they are, and after living here for decades, they already have an inseparable affection for this place. But now there is no other way, I decided to leave here with Ming'er, even if I was begging for food outside, I couldn't continue to stay here and be bullied by those brutes. ”

"Grandpa......" Xia Youming's face suddenly had two lines of tears.

"Ming'er, let's not cry. Old man, don't say anything disheartening. I finally coaxed the little girl to calm down, turned to look at the old man again, and said: "Old man, you know countless people, and I won't hide it from you, I am the eldest daughter of the Liangliao Prince's Mansion - Xue Zhimo, the crown princess of the dynasty, and the one who accompanied me yesterday was the prince of the dynasty - Li Hanyan." ”

As soon as these words came out, the old man's face changed greatly: "It turned out to be the crown princess Niangniang, the little one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, if there is any neglect, please forgive the mother!" The old man exclaimed in surprise, and pulled the little girl to kneel down to worship.

I hurriedly stretched out my hand to stop: "Old man, what are you doing, hurry up." He helped the old man to sit down in front of a chair and spoke again: "Old man, I have identified myself now, can you tell me what kind of background those people have?" ”

The old man lost his son at an early age, and now he is forced to leave his hometown by the gangsters, and the pain in his heart can be imagined, life in the imperial capital of Chang'an City is still like this, not to mention the outside, I really don't want to see this old and young people encounter accidents outside.

"What are you going to do? Child, I'll pack up my things and leave with Ming'er tomorrow, you don't have to cause unnecessary trouble for our grandchildren. "The old man doesn't want to get into trouble with me because of his own business.

"Old man, since you call me a child, then I can't let this matter go, just tell me, I have my own measure."

Eventually, under my constant questioning, the old man finally said something.

Chang'an City is roughly divided into twelve jurisdictions, and in this jurisdiction where the old man is located, there lives a Wang family, which is second to none in this jurisdiction, the so-called "land snake", that is, the group of gangsters who often bully the old man and Xia Youming.

It is said that this Wang family is very well-connected in the court, and even has something to do with the queen mother of the dynasty, so no one in this jurisdiction dares to provoke the power of the Wang family.

Wang Jia...... and the surname Wang.

I felt a lot of slander in my heart, and suddenly I thought of Grandma Wang and that Wang Liangdi, and now there is another Wang family, I can't help but wonder, should there be any connection between them?

As far as I know, the old man used to have a house here, and his life was not as embarrassing as it is now, and his son died suddenly...... He didn't mention any of these issues.

"Ming'er, you go to the back room first, and I'll talk to the crown princess about something." The old man put Xia Youming aside before he spoke: "Crown Princess Niangniang, I know that you are in a high position and will not be afraid of anything, but you really don't need to ask for trouble for us, do you know the Northern Imperial Division?" There are also people in the Wang family ......"

Kita Goji ...... What a familiar name......

The old man continued, it turned out that his son and daughter-in-law also served in the Northern Imperial Division before, and they were also very valued by the upper echelons, and even the Wang family had to get along with them, and they didn't dare to offend easily.